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admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:57:21 +0000

8 light ascii display terminal terminal featured on coolhunting

sailbritain.org

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:12:22 +0000

Jack is sailing 3,000 nautical miles around Great Britain over the next 3 moths and raising money for the Marine Conservation Society and the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

Our goal with SailBritain.org was to make a super clean and easy to use site in one week. The site’s main page only has 7 big text-links, so you won’t get lost.

Follow Jack’s adventures and help him raise money for two extremely worth causes at SailBritain.org!

Go Jack! Have an awesome adventure!

exposure 1 – prototype

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:57:36 +0000

by CW&T

A fixture for a standard F40T12 fluorescent tube light. The piece intentionally exposes the ballast, wires and electrical outlet required for the light to operate.

The light plugs directly into an outlet, requiring a user to plug and unplug to turn it on and off.

A fluorescent light fixture is not meant to call attention to the ballast hidden inside of it that is required to operate. Most people don’t even know it is there or that standard household electricity needs to be altered in order for a fluorescent light to work. Is it possible to expose the ballast as part of the fixture so that it adds aesthetic value and also acknowledges its technological inner workings?

design diagram:

onnoodles.com

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:33:19 +0000

Keira Alexandra once told us that her grandfather, Vladimir Ossipov kept a list of things he did for each day of the year in a book where each page was dedicated to one day. For example, on February 4th, he would weigh himself and record it on the same page year after year. We wanted to manufacture yearly rituals in a similar way. So here’s onnoodles.

link to us onnoodle:[onnoodles.com/cwandt]
follow our noodles on twitter:[twitter.com/cwandt]

For Keira Alexandra and her Grandpa,
Here we imagine manufacturing rituals.
with love from brooklyn,
cw&t&subshark

Rotation Notation

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:16:43 +0000

by CW&T

Rotation Notation’s hour hand moves on a 12 hour cycle, powered by the wearer’s movement and is set by its orientation on the wrist. There is no minute or second hand. Time can be accurately read by looking closely at where the hour hand points. 60 holes around the perimeter mark 12 minute increments in a 12 hour cycle. There is no predetermined or primary orientation to the watch. 12 o’clock is wherever you want it to be. The orientation of the watch is set by you with a string looped into one of the 60 holes.

This watch is built with an automatic mechanical movement. There is no stem to set the hour hand or wind the mechanism. So if you want to change the time, remove the old string and add string in the appropriate holes to mark 12 o’clock, 6 o’clock or whatever combination you like. Over time, the accumulation of string leaves behind a history of your notations.

The Pursuit of Stillness

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:55:24 +0000

by CW&T

In an empty lobby, smoke-like swirls of light creep from the edges of undulating Corian furniture. When a visitor is present, the light retracts back into the furniture, emerging again once there is stillness.

The Pursuit of Stillness is an interactive projection designed for Acconci Studio’s Corian Furniture Installation in the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Acconci’s installation is part of year long series celebrating the Centennial Year of the Grand Concourse.

The software was written using Open Frameworks with openCV with Optical Flow. The application controls 25 high speed video loops, each mapped to a trigger position on the floor. The video was shot using a Casio Exilim EX-FH20 and the camera tracking uses an overhead PS3 camera.

by CW&T (Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy)

Pursuit of Stillness – CW&T from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

The Pursuit of Stillness from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

Blockhead Stem

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:47:24 +0000

by CW&T

Blockhead Stem is the sturdiest stem you’ll ever meet. A solid chunk of aluminum machined with sharp edges and corners, this stem is not for everyone. Ride it at your own risk.

Material: 7075 Aluminum
Length:40mm
Clamp diameter: 26mm
Rize: 0 degrees
Steerer tube diameter: 1-1/8″
Dimensions: 53mm x 53mm x 86.79mm
Weight: 501.8 grams
Includes: 6 stainless steel screws

One night in Bed-Stuy we imagined it and needed it for our fancy bikes.

For wholesale inquiries, please contact us at cwandt(at)cwandt(dot)com

Blockhead Stem is licensed under a creative commons license. Take our design, modify it, make one for yourself. But please don’t sell them because we need money to buy and eat dumplings. Give credit where it’s due. We actually want you to go find your machinist buddy and see if he or she can make it for super cheap. We spent about a month searching for a quality machinist that can produce them on demand. If you find a better machinist please share.

Download [blkhdstm001.stp] to mill it on your own.
Download [blkhdstm001.pdf] for specifications.
Add 6 stainless steel socket cap screws (Metric 18-8 SS Socket Head Cap Screw M6 Thread, 30mm Length, 1mm Pitch)

thanks oh and you rock. love, cw&t

eat cupcakes. ride blockhead.

Blockhead Stem by Che-Wei Wang, Taylor Levy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

8 light ascii display terminal terminal

admin — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:33:20 +0000

Overview

8 fluorescent tube lights plug into a standard computer keyboard to display computer ASCII in binary as you type.

This is the most simple possible computer display.

An ordinary computer display shows text after a series of complex data transformations that happen hidden inside computers. This display truncates human language at the point of computer language and reveals computer language at human scale. What remains is the the unfamiliar, yet genuine codified semantic that hides behind everyday human language.

Materials: Fluorescent Lights, Electronics, Keyboard.

*** Technical Description and Documentation ***

Construction & Additional Images

Early Design With Concrete Images

More about the binary numeral system.

chomp chomp

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:26:57 +0000

Plaster teeth are fed ASCII bytes to control their movement. Sometimes talking is hard.

Materials: drywall, concrete, electronics, plaster teeth.

maybe i’m not drinking enough water from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

25 photographs

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:47:45 +0000